Marc Cohn Things We`ve Handed Down Lyrics

Things We`ve Handed Down Lyrics

I don't know much about you

I don't know who you are

We been doin' fine whitout you

But we could only go so far



Don't know why you chose us

we're you watching from above

is there someone there that knows us

said we give you all our love



Do you laugh just like your mother

Do you sight like your'e old man

Did something skip a generation

like heard they often can



You would pull it all then dancing

A devil or clown

Or a strange new combination

of things we've handed down



Wonder who you look like

do your hair fall down in curls

will you be mama's boy

or daddy's little girl



Will you be a sad reminder

what's been lost along the way

Maybe you can help me find her

in the things you do and say



And theese things you have given me are not so easliy found

Oh, but you can thank us later for the things we've handed down

Things we've handed down...



You may not always be so grateful

for the way that you were made

Maybe some features of your father's

that you gladly sell or trade



And one day you may look at us

And say that you have were cursed

But all the time that line has been

extremly well rehearst



By our father's and their fathers in some old and distant town

The places no-one here remembers cause the things we've handed down



Things we've handed down x3...